Addressing the increasing demand for supercomputing power in the oil and gas industry, California-based Appro has partnered with Houston-based CyrusOne to host high-performance services at the latter's flagship Tier 4 data center. Located in the energy capital of Houston, oil and gas companies can easily access the data center for additional capacity and services to meet their short-term computational requirements, planned or unplanned workloads, new projects and new business opportunities. This data center is one of the few top-tier centers engineered specifically for dense power and cooling requirements needed for Grid computing.